13 Bible Verses about Drawbacks To Riches

At this, Jesus said to his disciples: "I tell you that a rich man will find it hard to enter the Kingdom of Heaven!

Then Jesus looked round, and said to his disciples: "How hard it will be for men of wealth to enter the Kingdom of God!"

Seeing this, Jesus said to his disciples: "How hard it is for men of wealth to enter the Kingdom of God!

It is easier for a camel to get through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God."

It is easier, indeed, for a camel to get through a needle's eye than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God!"

There was once a rich man, who dressed in purple robes and fine linen, and feasted every day in great splendor.

The hungry he loads with gifts, and the rich he sends empty away.

No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate one and love the other, or else he will attach himself to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money.

So it is with those who lay by wealth for themselves and are not rich to the glory of God."

Your riches have wasted away, and your clothes have become moth-eaten.

In a single hour your vast wealth vanished.' Every ship's captain and all who sail to any port, and sailors, and all who get their living from the sea, stood at a distance,

For the rich man will pass away 'like the flower of the grass.' As the sun rises, and the hot wind blows, 'the grass withers, its flower fades,' and all its beauty is gone. So is it with the rich man. In the midst of his pursuits he will come to an untimely end.

Those who want to be rich fall into the snares of temptation, and become the prey of many foolish and harmful ambitions, which plunge people into Destruction and Ruin.